Salt Lake City: Official Development News Thread - Part 5

[rockies]

Originally Posted by LuisPanzer

Is that where the building designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz Architecture is going to be built ?

Yes, here is a BSL article with renderings courtesy of SCB Architecture

[Orlando]

Originally Posted by Atlas

This is significantly worse, in my opinion. Main Street SLC is still something special and there are good pockets of old and new urbanism around it. Still a ways to go to fill in the missing teeth, and State Street can be a formidable barrier, but I've never seen it as dead as this.

I did ride the light rail south of Uptown Charlotte and there was some more interesting newer urbanism around but the eastern part of the CBD that I've seen is just utterly empty all day long.


No. SLC is better.

I was in Charlotte about a year and a half ago to entertain a job offer. The South End, south of Uptown (Charlotte's downtown), has some interesting new development. Uptown has a really nice main street, but they have huge above-ground parking garages that are exposed on the block sides opposite of the main street that kill the street vibe.

[DCRes]

I was in Charlotte just last week, stayed in Uptown. I have to say that I was very impressed with the area. Some of the highlights included:

- The streets were very active. I was there Friday night and all day Saturday, there were people out walking everywhere.

- It overall felt very clean, and not as many homeless as I've seen in other cities

- I walked through the Fourth Ward, which I believe is the oldest neighborhood, it's quiet and quaint and full of Victorian style homes , and directly adjacent to the busy downtown https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attracti..._Carolina.html

- We kind of stumbled upon Optomist Hall. It's a really cool old textile mill that has been repurposed to a food hall / public market https://www.charlottesgotalot.com/ar...irst-food-hall

I was much less impressed with Raleigh, however.

[SLC PopPunk]

Noticed a small crew working on Astra today, looked like they were working on the elevator core area.

[meman]

I also walked by Astra Tower this morning, look like construction is going full bore. There was a lot a workers on site. I did notice the hole is still not fixed but the site of the hole is west of where the main tall tower will be.

[Paniolo Man]

It's hard to see in the pictures, but the collapse area is sectioned off with red tape.

As a bonus here is progress on the project on the corner of 500 W and 200 S with the old Central Warehouse. I believe it's called CINQ.

[allh]

Originally Posted by SLC PopPunk

Looks like construction fencing is up around the former Salt Lake City School District building on 400 E and 100 S. Has anyone heard what might be going there?

Curious about this as well.

[SLC PopPunk]

Originally Posted by SLC PopPunk

Looks like construction fencing is up around the former Salt Lake City School District building on 400 E and 100 S. Has anyone heard what might be going there?

Originally Posted by allh

Curious about this as well.

They started demo on the building today, probably will have it all down by the end of the week. If it's multi family housing, would mean a lot more density coming to that area with the Big Lots and Crown Burger developments just down the block.

[delts145]

I hope the project behind those cool historic mansions across the street is still a go.

[Orlando]

/\/\/\ What project?

[Reeder113]

Astra this morning:

[LuisPanzer]

Originally Posted by Reeder113

Astra this morning:

Impressive work so far. Isnt someone building a hotel right next to Astra to the West on the other side of that ramp?

[Paniolo Man]

Originally Posted by LuisPanzer

Impressive work so far. Isnt someone building a hotel right next to Astra to the West on the other side of that ramp?

Eventually, but not until Astra is done. They are using that area for work on Astra at the moment.

[scottharding]

Apparently the hotel at the Gateway/Union Pacific Depot has broken ground.

https://www.utahbusiness.com/asher-a...breaks-ground/

[Stenar]

Originally Posted by scottharding

Apparently the hotel at the Gateway/Union Pacific Depot has broken ground.

https://www.utahbusiness.com/asher-a...breaks-ground/

I hate this so much.

[bob rulz]

Originally Posted by Stenar

I hate this so much.

I was definitely hoping that project was dead. Too bad.

[Ironweed]

Originally Posted by Stenar

I hate this so much.

I agree Stenar. Not a good fit for that location.

[Schmoe]

Originally Posted by mstar

Question for Schmoe - I know you can't give any details, but do you think this is going to be big enough problem to have serious delays in construction?

Nope. Work has resumed.

[taboubak]

Originally Posted by Schmoe

Nope. Work has resumed.

Thank for the update Schmoe, great to see them back out there!

[mstar]

Thanks Schmoe! 😊